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The grand design : strategy and the U.S. Civil War /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stoker, Donald J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
Strategy > History > 19th century.
United States > Military policy.
Confederate States of America > Military policy.
Table of Contents:
  • Policy and war
  • The sinews of war
  • Mr. Lincoln goes to war
  • The border states: policy, strategy, and civil-military relations
  • McClellan on top: Union strategy, July 1861-October 1861
  • Union strategy: November 1861 to March 1862
  • The foundations of naval strategy
  • The war in the West: breaking the cordon
  • A new year and a new strategy
  • War in Virginia
  • Confusion in the West: the summer of 1862
  • The tyranny of time
  • Facing the arithmetic: escalation and destruction
  • The enormous proportions of war
  • Vicksburg and exhaustion
  • The cruel summer of 1863: the Gettysburg campaign
  • The autumn of 1863: playing the deep game
  • The siren song of Tennessee: the winter of 1863-64
  • Decision and desperation: 1864
  • The full fury of modern war
  • War termination
  • Conclusion: in war's shadow.